Soap Operas In Myanmar? It's True

11/16/2012 10:30PM

A newly democratizing Myanmar is trading its dreary television programming of army parades in for advertiser-friendly soap operas. WSJ's James Hookway reports on the nascent commercial programming industry in Myanmar.

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